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Originally Posted by mrmistoffelees
The government have said they have made mistakes that have cost lives. So, you have to accept that people are going to criticise. Especially when their are glaringly obvious errors that have been made.
Look at the 'success' Greece & New Zealand have had in managing their instances of the pandemic.
Greece has just 146 deaths, New Zealand 20
Before you say, but ah they're spread out and different country etc. etc. yes, it does to a degree play a part. However the single biggest thing that they did was to lockdown fast and they did it hard.
The government has had the same evidence as other western countries, the issue is they made bad decisions at the outset.
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I’m sorry but you’re obviously well aware of the glaring deficiency in your appeals to New Zealand and Greece. You can’t dismiss that with an airy wave of your hand. The differences between a great many countries in the world, and the U.K., are profound. This is one of the best connected countries on the planet and London is one of the few true global cities in the world. Greece and NZ are partly, or entirely island based but there the similarities end; the sheer depth of connectivity the U.K. has more than overcomes that similarity. Neither country is a major international transit hub and NZ in particular is thousands of miles from anywhere else of any significance. There is literally nothing we can learn from NZ on this, given the immense differences in population size, geography and movement of people in and out of the country.
I know it’s desperately fashionable to beatify Jacinda Ardern these days but frankly, she’s playing the very lucky hand she was dealt, and that’s all.